AUDACITY:
1.) Willingness to take risks
2.) The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident
Katie Couric interviews Barack Obama about The Surge
Bruce McQuain at QandO sums it up nicely,
Lord Keynes once famously said, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”
What Obama does is practice avoidance and does so through the age old political device of doggedly sticking to his talking points in the face of the obvious reality of the situation.
Character.
Integrity.
There it is, in abundance, huh?
Gateway Pundit has been all over BO’s trip to the Middle East. He noticed another problem for Obama from this interview with Katie, Barack’s inability to be honest about his position on Jerusalem,
Couric: You said not too long ago that Jerusalem should remain undivided. And then you backtracked on that statement. Does that play into the argument that some believe that someone more experienced would not have made that kind of mistake?
Obama: Well… if you look at what happened, there was no shift in policy or backtracking in policy. We just had phrased it poorly in the speech.
Gateway Pundit: There is no question what Obama told the AIPAC audience. Here is the transcript from AIPAC, via Jewishfan:
Obama: “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,” Obama thundered in his AIPAC speech earning an ovation from the 7,000-plus attendees at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference.
Gateway Pundit: Yet, today Obama had the nerve to tell Katie Couric that he never switched positions on Jerusalem.
If you find this kind of AUDACITY hard to believe, Gateway Pundit has some helpful video so you can see for yourself exactly what he said and when he said it.